Salaama All, SomaliStar, A lot of people b4 you have asked the Same question and many will after you, The Truth of the Matter is that no two People will agree on the Same thing[name,orgin]...My Suggestion to you brotha is pick a 'Title' for yourself and stick to that whether it's Africans,Blacks or Arabs.....etc Ma'salaama LadyAfricanooz

Hey CaydiidCuqdadloow Aka The man with the Dhoocil-Like Mentality, Thanks For the 'Vote' dear.... That is Really nice Coming from someone like yourself! Thanks@Kashulty... Likewise brotha....

Soul-Lady....I see now that I'm not the only one that receives "hate" messages from this CaydiidCuqdadloow Person...But hey sista.... Ha layaabin wiilka....SHUKAANSIGII buu Khalad ka fahmaye!!......Like that Rewaayad... MAGAALO JOOG XUMO! if you know what I mean.... His Insults/hate etc is his Own Weird way of saying he likes you..lol Where is LST and Jaber when U need them ....This guy needs SHUKAANSI 101 Lessons.. ASAP walaahi Ma'salaama

I agree with what SoulLady Said!....

Thanks @ Nice Guy..........

BUSTER...Oh C'mon Khaafa'Alaaaaaaah

the Poem is aight sis, we all gota start from somewhere right! [This message has been edited by LadyFatima (edited 04-12-2002).]

Salaama All, Farahkhan, Well we are all "blacks" technically speaking but we have different cultures and customs which we live by, and that makes it difficult to marry one another atleast for me.......Anyway, Read this Article perhaps you will understand why it is better to stick with your own kind! Ma'salaama ------------------------------------------- The many shades of black By Darryl Fears The Washington Post After arriving in America, masses of impoverished West Indians and Africans see a land of plenty — and don't understand why black natives haven't flourished. At the same time, what most African Americans know of black immigrants comes from foreign news accounts and Hollywood, partly because little is taught of Africa or African Americans in U.S. schools. NEW YORK — Nearly two decades have passed since Odehyee Abena Owiredua arrived here from Ghana, but she can't truly say she has lived the black American experience. She once rented an apartment in Harlem, but "I didn't feel comfortable around African Americans," she said. "I have not dated an African American, because very, very few approach me." "I love black people, but there is a negative relationship between immigrants and African Americans," said Abena Owiredua, 34. "They look down at me, not at me. I feel inferior around them. It's the ignorant questions I get. 'Do you guys live in houses over there?' When I get those kinds of questions from black Americans, I feel very hurt." As she talked on the dimly lighted mezzanine of the Times Square hotel where she works, Abena Owiredua described a little-known reality: America's black community, which now includes more West Indian and African immigrants than ever, is no longer the monolithic group that many politicians, civil-rights advocates and demographers say it is. A new African-American community is being forged, sociologists and anthropologists say, in which culture and nationality are becoming more important than skin color. It is as diverse — and as divided — as the Latino community or the Asian-American community, each made up of migrants from numerous nations. In Miami, the West Indian population — now 48 percent of the black community — is expected to surpass the native-born African-American population within eight years, according to Census Bureau projections. In New York City, nearly one-third of the black population is foreign-born, according to an analysis by demographer William Frey. And an analysis of census figures by the Boston Globe showed that one-third of the black population in Massachusetts is foreign-born. "This is an important story for demographers and policymakers who are used to lumping together the black population," said Frey, a white University of Michigan demographer. "The foreign-born African Americans and native-born African Americans are becoming as different from each other as foreign-born and native-born whites, in terms of culture, social status, aspirations and how they think of themselves." In New York, the brown-complexioned man or woman on the street could easily be Haitian, Jamaican, Senegalese or Nigerian. In Boston, they may be Cape Verdean. In Washington, D.C., they might be Ethiopian, Eritrean or Somali. Yves Colon, a Haitian immigrant who grew up in Brooklyn and now lives in Miami, said black students at his high school thought "I was just another brother until I opened my mouth." Donnette Dunbar of Harlem said black Americans seem surprised when she returns their greetings with Jamaican slang. Detroit native Sunni Khalid learned that things were not so different in Africa when he interned at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi in 1982. While walking to work one day, he saw Zeinab Said, a striking Somali, from across the street and followed her to work. He quickly learned that like most Somalis, Said is extraordinarily proud of her heritage. It took everything he had learned of African history at Howard and Johns Hopkins universities to convince her that he could understand her more than most foreigners could. But that was only the first barrier the couple had to overcome. Said's relatives, especially her brother-in-law, frowned on the affair, calling Khalid the son of a slave. "They wanted me to marry a Somali," she said. Soon, Somali men she did not know were knocking on her door. "I didn't want to marry someone simply because he was a Somali," Said said. The brother-in-law forbade Said's sister from attending her wedding to Khalid. When Khalid and Said moved to Washington in 1983, she was startled to see so many black people in her new home. But she quickly discovered they were not nearly as knowledgeable about Africa as her husband. Once, Said mentioned to an African-American woman that she is a Somali and had lived in Africa. When the woman asked, "Do you speak the ooga-booga language?" Said was startled. "What's that?" Said asked. She speaks three languages — Somali, Swahili and English — and at the time knew nothing of Tarzan movies, where such insulting characterizations of African language can be heard. Meanwhile, Khalid had his own problems at Howard University. Black women he knew looked past his wife's chocolate-colored skin and focused on her narrow nose, straight hair and thin lips. "Sunni has gone and married a white black woman," he recalled a friend saying. He lowered his head for shame while recounting the story at his Baltimore home. His wife stiffened with indignation. "What is a European feature?" she demanded. "What is an African feature? It is an insult to a Somali for someone to ask if you are half-Indian, the way African-Americans do. I am not an Indian. I am not white. Only in America. When I walk in London, no one would mistake me for a Nigerian. They look at me and say, 'You are Somali.' It's education, education, education!" But little is taught of Africa or African Americans in U.S. schools. An almost exclusive emphasis on white American and European history is a legacy of second-class citizenship that African Americans endure, said Jemima Pierre, a Haitian-American anthropologist at the University of Texas in Austin. After arriving in America, masses of impoverished West Indians and Africans see a land of plenty — and don't understand why black natives haven't flourished. They don't realize that black Americans were enslaved the longest, and that after emancipation, they lived for a century under legal segregation. What most African Americans know of black immigrants comes from foreign news accounts and Hollywood, Pierre said. She was hard-pressed to recall a major motion picture about Africa — "Out of Africa," "Gorillas in the Mist," "I Dreamed of Africa," "Congo" — that was not set in the jungle. "Think about it," she said. "If you're being bombarded by these images of poor, destituted countries, you don't want to be associated with that. Think about Tarzan in Africa. You don't want to be associated with all those people who were depicted as savages. All you know of Africa is primitives, war, destitution, hunger." Last year, Will Smith, the black American actor, traveled to Mozambique for the first time during the filming of "Ali." "Everything I knew about Africa was a solid 80 percent false," he told a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. "I was embarrassed when I realized there were tall buildings and Mercedes and big cities and fine women. "I was so miseducated. It has the best and worst of everything." Ethiopian Lily Assegid said Africans also stubbornly hold on to stereotypes. But she said they can fade away with time. "When our parents came to this country in the 1950s," Assegid said, "many of them went to white schools, the better schools, and didn't interact with African Americans. What they were learning about African Americans was very prejudiced. "But they didn't see themselves as what they were hearing African Americans get called. They said, 'No, no, no, we're Ethiopians. We're Africans. We're different.' They would go back home and spread these stories." Now, living in Washington, Assegid doesn't believe a word her parents and others said: "As far as I'm concerned, African Americans are as much a part of Africa as a newborn child right now. They're a part of the people. The only difference is the culture they were born into. I believe that for all black people."

My spring break? A trip down to MacDonald's,the Movies, the mall and My room!! More than that? Haraam I say...lol Hey don't laugh at me, I'm Broke!! Lol@Buster...C'mon don't be so harsh on the gal aight!... Ma'salaama

My spring break? A trip down to MacDonald's,the Movies, the mall and My room!! More than that? Haraam I say...lol Hey don't laugh at me, I'm Broke!! Lol@Buster...C'mon don't be so harsh on the gal aight!... Ma'salaama

lol @nameless....Leave NQ alone! The 2 name or 3 names I like the most is LibaaxSankataabte.....It's not everyday U see a Name like this! Plus it sounds Powerful! The 2nd is QAWDHAN...I really missed that brotha & his Budh now!... The 3rd is Barwaaqo....It reminds me of that Reer Xamar Song!.... BTW...Baraaqo since U live in London too, can U tell Qawdhan I'm LQQking for him?.. Oh yeah and who can forget the One and Only Raula.. even though I like YDEZ much better.... Ma'salaama

lol.. Abdinuur Thanks walaalkiis that 1st pic is off the Hook! Bush Looks much better than Keanu Reeves!

Salaama All, I see this room is for the BRAINY plp only! sorry, didn't mean to disrupt, Yo'll do ya thang Ma'salaama

Salaama All, I see this room is for the BRAINY plp only! sorry, didn't mean to disrupt, Yo'll do ya thang Ma'salaama

Salaama All, Hey Ayeeyo, Oops I mean Barwaaqo!.. Truth hurts sista but, Hey I must be honest that is what My lil Brothas call me, I forgot to mention Xaasidad too!!...... Nayee Raula, Ilaahaye Ka Cabso! Runta ma isku sheegnoo, Inagii lee waaye??..lol since when did you become "polite"?? Girlfriend don't lie we all know you're a Wild Child .... and you better not distrub me again gal especially when I'm getting my beauty sleep!! Ma'salaama

Salaama All, Like Angie Stone said " He is my King, He is my one Yes he's my father, Yes he's my son I can talk to him, cuz he UNDERSTANDS Everything I go through and everything I'M That's my support system, I CAN'T live without him I'm so proud of you Whenever you facin doubt, NOMAD'S gon work it out I'm so proud of him And I just want the whole world to know, about my SOMALI BROTHA!! Yeah that is right, what you thought I was gona say? Sista Fartun, Caws Jilaal waa lagama Huraan! girl you're better off with your FAARAX... Yeah I know his "Muslim" and all that, but sista sooner or later the Culture difference will Surface....and trust me, Walaahi your gona regret marrying outside your culture big time... But hey, It's your life! right. Who are we to tell you what to do with it?, Just one last piece of advice Remember U made your bed, just don't forget to lay on it later when he beats the Sh*t out of you and you're living in Shelters Ma'salaama

lol@ Ismahaan U got me there.... Ok let me give U a hint ... It says I'm often lonely, very choosy!uncertain of things..Reliable Only in some situations Usually when it involves Money! and I don't take partnership seriously!... Hope that gives you and Idea of what I'm [This message has been edited by LadyFatima (edited 03-11-2002).]

Salaama All, Why? don't know but all I know is... They Got thier game from a woman .....lol that is right sis, it's our fault! we taught them those games and now they playing it on us. Some of us play way too much games then 'em Fellaz truth be told!... Personally, I think Games are for kids.. We grown-ups don't need that shi*t ! honesty is the best policy! just be honest with your partner and if you don't feel 'em tell them up front no need to waste his/her time.........but remember whatever good or bad that you do to someone has it's consequences!...what goes around comes around...Xuux Ma'salaama

Inyo Inyo Inyo.......Maxaan kugu sheegaa? so U can make fun of me?

Hey, Mr what is his name? Aplus..well, we could have seen it 'together' if you were not with that other woman Anywayz...Abdinuur lets see it again?? Pick me up by 7inish [This message has been edited by LadyFatima (edited 03-11-2002).]

Salaama All, JOHN Q!........Is off the hook! seen it, love it, would recommend it!!.......It's also another good reason to double check your insurance policies Ma'salaama

Salaama Ladyz..... I like all of 'em especially the Last one! Thnaks Ismahaan!

Salaama Ladyz..... I like all of 'em especially the Last one! Thnaks Ismahaan!

Salaama All, Well, Let me see? what was it that they use to call me?Hmmmmmmmm! Well, QUMAYO was one of 'em and it truly fits me perfectly!

Ok, Ok, what is wrong with me? I only see ONE!! and don't tell me I need glasses cuz I dont [This message has been edited by LadyFatima (edited 03-05-2002).]